Agilitydogz

Hi

This will be my first post on my blog! Not sure whether I am doing it right yet!

Then I have to learn to post pictures and video clips!!

Well it seems to be working ok!

I have the European Open Qualifier tomorrow with Indy! Not sure whether I actually want to go, we may have to fund ourselves but this hasn’t been confirmed yet.

So if we have t fund the EO we will have to fund the FCI as well, I have to qualify for both yet but I do prefer the FCI, I don’t get wet as its inside and can run better on carpet!

It will be good experience for us both and fun to watch everyone else trying out and its only an hours drive max away!

Spec’s last litter is due in about 2 weeks, Spice is getting very big! Poor girl. I am very excited to see what she has.

Tag did his first complete low running A-frame the other night! To start with his legs were everywhere and he did miss one contact completely! But the last one was perfect – two hits and with all four feet in the contact zone.

I have found with  Tag that the first time we change what we are doing i.e putting him on the aframe above the contact, then the behaviour isn’t quite what we want but by the 2nd training session his well under way.

My parents have had two viewings booked to see their house! Fingers crossed the get an offer. We are attempting to sell both our properties so we can get somewhere bigger with land for the dogs and the training!

I am still working on work to let me go part time, I want to drop 2 days at work  so I have more time for myself and my dogs and so I can set up my training.

We had a great Easter at UKA, the venue was great although the ground was very hard for me and I ended up quite stiff! Just recovering now!

Indy and Wych won quite a few and got their qualifing runs for the IFCS tryouts. Wych had a problem understanding pull throughs and coming to me when I changed my arm! Now nick named Wych “pull through” Garrett!

Our training over this week has consisted in pull through training, after a few words we are now working on the same page! We also tried the difficult tunnel dog walk combination and then round the back of a fence combination that was in a champ UKA agility course.

Indy nailed it on competition wonderfully Wych had no idea. Again after a few words at training and breaking the exercise down we had it nailed, she even responded to changing which direction she took the fence.

I will try and post the combination but that may take a while for me to work out!!

I am looking forward to having sunday off and looking at some possible new houses and getting a rest! Hopefully the weather will be good!